Sciver-Brunt | POTM: Yeah, I guess so (has she hit a purple patch?). Enjoying my batting at the moment. Feel good of myself. We always talk about the key players. We always talk about the key players - she has played a couple of brilliant innings for UPW. We put our plans in place. It's great when it comes off. On another day she might've hit it in the stands. The fight that we have in our group is brilliant. On a given day, anyone can put in a match-winning performance.
Harmanpreet | MI captain: Really happy with the result. Getting a wicket in the first over is always a plus point. Nat did everything right today. Happy with the way our medium pacers bowled. Also the way Sanskriti bowled was special to see. It's part of the game. You just need to do the right things again and again. Sanskriti's over was crucial, she turned the game around. She's very sorted in her head. She's a very experienced player and showed how much talent she had (talking about Sciver-Brunt). Pitch looked different when she was batting.
Highest partnerships in the WPL 162 - M Lanning & Shafali Verma (DC) vs RCB, 2023 140 - B Mooney & L Wolvaardt (GG) vs RCB, 2024 139* - A Healy & D Vaidya (UPW) vs RCB, 2023 133 - H Matthews & Nat Sciver-Brunt (MI) vs UPW, 2025* 125 - S Devine & S Mandhana (RCB) vs GG, 2023
Nat Sciver-Brunt's scores in this season 80* (59) 57 (49) 42 (21) 75* (44) - today - 254 runs at 127.0 avg, SR:155.8
Hayley Matthews: Personally, it was a bit choppy. Having Nat at the other end, I tried to play a role and support her as best as i can. Looking at the scenario and what the team needs, I tried to put the team first. It (pitch) was a bit slow, I am a bit of a back foot player, found it a bit easier playing there and struggled a bit on the front foot. She (Nat Sciver-Brunt) has been great through the entire season so far, four big scores in four matches. She has been so consistent and the pillar of this team. Lot of confidence having her on our side and how easy she makes it look in the middle.
Deepti Sharma: We lost back-to-back wickets and if we had got a partnership, we could have got to 160-170. (On Grace Harris) Her role was to play to her strengths in the powerplay and she did that perfectly. We'll come back stronger. There are some takeaways from this loss. We need to work on building partnerships in the middle-order.
22:37 Local Time, 17:07 GMT, 22:37 IST: MI were slow off the blocks in the run-chase, but they've cruised home with three overs to spare.
16.6
Ecclestone to Kaur, FOUR, to fine leg
Harmanpreet Kaur, right handed bat, comes to the crease
16.5
Ecclestone to Matthews, out Caught by Vrinda Dinesh!! Matthews c Vrinda Dinesh b Ecclestone 59(50) [4s-7 6s-2]
Ecclestone to Matthews, THATS OUT!! Caught!!
16.4
Ecclestone to Matthews, no run, tossed up on off, driven to extra cover